*Researcher Philip Jackson (p. 149) said that elementary teachers have 200 to 300 exchanges with students every hour (between 1200-1500 a day), most of which are unplanned and unpredictable calling for teacher decisions, if not judgments.

Now, a new study (thanks to Dan Willingham for the tip) has identified the number of research-based options we have to choose from when we make these decisions:

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Russell Joki
on December 27, 2014 at 12:17 pm

Thank you for all that you do as a teacher. I retired from K-12 and now help prepare aspiring school administrators. I focus on teacher decision making as the foundation for protecting teacher rights–the right to manage a classroom, the right to due process, etc. Your page has helped me organize an upcoming editorial.